Translations of Non-Mingshi Texts

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Gu Yanwu (1613–1682), Disquisitions on the Imperial System (Junxian lun; ca.1670s), translated and introduced by Miranda Brown is available here. (C) Miranda Brown. In Miranda Brown,“Returning the Gaze: An Experiment in Reviving Gu Yanwu (1613–1682),” in Fragments: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Ancient and Medieval Pasts 1 (2011).
The article is available in full at this link.

Johannes L. Kurz, “Two Early Ming Texts on Borneo,” Ming Studies 70 (2015): 60-72 has translations of an account by Song Lian of an 1371 Ming embassy to Borneo and a 1408 epitaph by Hu Guang for the Borneo king who died while visiting the Yongle court.